History Trivia / TheRedGreenShow

* ''Poetry'': Red reads a poem or passage from a book. During seasons 1-3, the poems often took on a theme based on a season (e.g. "It is winter/It is spring").

* ''Handyman Corner'': Red uses various scraps to create inventions. While this segment used to be limited to OnceAnEpisode, around the 9th season there were ''multiple'' Handyman Corners throughout an episode: A short one featured as a ColdOpen, then the main one during the first segment, and another short one during the third segment.

** One of Edgar K.B. Montrose's first appearances had him talking about the film ''Film/DancesWithWolves'', talking about how the "Native guy" (the role played by actor Graham Greene), should have gotten the Oscar.

* WrittenByCastMember: Taken to its literal conclusion. Steve Smith co-wrote all 300 episodes. Rick Green co-wrote every episode for the first eight seasons and the last two or three seasons. Later cast members like Peter Wildman and Bob Bainborough would also contribute to dozens of episodes in their own right.

* ''Red's Campfire Songs'': Red plays guitar while singing a song with a punchline. Harold accompanies on "percussion".

* ''Handyman Corner'': Red uses various scraps to create inventions.

* ''Adventures With Bill'': Black-and-white segment featuring tons of slapstick as Bill tries to do something for fun but fails spectacularly. Red narrates the proceedings.

* ''Ranger Gord's Educational Films'': A series of animated cartoons done by Ranger Gord (in real life, animated by Bryce Hallett). Gord was portrayed as a handsome, buff stud, while Red and Harold were portrayed as beavers. Ironically, it was Red and Harold who gave the correct advice, while Gord was always wrong.

* ''Auto Biography'': Debuted during season 6. A Possum Lodge member waxes about their favorite vehicle.

* ''Red's Campfire Songs'': Red plays guitar while singing a song with a punchline. Harold accompanies on "percussion".

* ''If It Ain't Broke, You're Not Trying'': Debuted during season 7. Red tries to fix stuff, and usually makes things worse. In the earlier episodes, the emphasis was more on explaining how the item in question was broken in the first place, such as Dalton's wife hitting him over the head with a tennis racket.

* ''If It Ain't Broke, You're Not Trying'': Debuted during season 7. Red tries to fix stuff, and usually makes things worse.

* ''Possum 911'': Debuted during season 6.

* WrittenByCastMember: Taken to its literal conclusion. Steve Smith co-wrote all 300 episodes. Rick Green co-wrote every episode for the first eight seasons and the last two or three seasons. Later cast members like Peter Wildman and Bob Bainborough would also contribute to dozens of episodes in their own right.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Steve Smith isn't too fond of the second season, during which the executives pressed him to make the show into more of a sitcom. Hence the expanded cast and plotlines that we actually saw develop, as opposed to simply being related by Red. When Smith got back full creative control from the third season onwards, he went back to the old format.
** That said, one major aspect of the show did originate in the second season and was kept thereafter: The possum squeal sound effect which signaled the start of the lodge meeting.

* RealLifeRelative: Dougie Franklin's brother Benjamin was played by Ian Thomas' older brother [[{{SCTV}} Dave Thomas]].

** That said, one major aspect of the show did originate in the second season and was kept thereafter: The pig squeal sound effect which signaled the start of the lodge meeting.

** Harold occasionally mentions watching ''{{Traders}}'', a show where Patrick [=McKenna=] played the role of Marty.
** One of Edgar K.B. Montrose's first appearances had him talking about the film ''DancesWithWolves'', talking about how the "Native guy" (the role played by actor Graham Greene), should have gotten the Oscar.
** Wayne Robson played a down-and-out man in ''OneMagicChristmas'', who is so desperate for some money that he robs a bank -- and accidentally commits murder! Not to mention hijacks a car with some kids in it!

* ActorAllusion: Harold occasionally mentions watching ''{{Traders}}'', a show where Patrick [=McKenna=] played the role of Marty. Edgar K.B. Montrose's first appearance had him talking about the film ''DancesWithWolves'', talking about how the "Native guy" (the role played by actor Graham Greene), should have gotten the Oscar.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Steve Smith isn't too fond of the second season, during which the executives pressed him to make the show into more of a sitcom. Hence the expanded cast and plotlines that we actually saw develop, as opposed to simply being related by Red. When Smith got back full creative control from the third season onwards, he went back to the old format.